Friday, January 31, 2014

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ~ Arthur KoestlerOriginality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe- you can't take a taxi. ~ Alan Alda The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new and landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel ProustThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ~ Thomas Carlyle Originality is doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath. ~ Marie Chapian Quotes about originality

Thursday, January 30, 2014

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ~ Francis WillardOne way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. ~ Michael KordaRide the energy of your own unique spirit. ~ Gabrielle Roth

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Everyone must row with the oars he has. ~ English proverbBelieve in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble
but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or
happy. ~ Norman Vincent PealeSuccess is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage. ~ Charles LuckmanNatural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. ~ Francis BaconHide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade? ~ Benjamin FranklinQuotes about ability, talents

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope- a slight change, and all patterns alter. Quotes by Sharon Salzberg

Monday, January 27, 2014

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go. ~ Bernard MalamudHow important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes. ~ Maya AngelouWe can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. ~ Will RogersMy heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. ~ Bono

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves. ~ Haruki Murakami

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Laugh your heart out,Dance in the rain,Cherish each moment,Ignore the pain;Live, laugh, love,Forgive and forget;Life’s too shortTo live with regrets! Everyone wants to be happy,Nobody wants pain; But you can't have rainbowsWithout any rain.Be kin, be honest,be loving, be true,and all of these thingswill come back to you. ~ unknown authorsLyrical sayings, quotes about life

Friday, January 24, 2014

The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. ~Seth GodinYou raze the old to raise the new. ~ Justina ChenThe beginning is always today. ~ Mary Shelley

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal
changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I. ~ John SteinbeckI want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed. ~ Mel BrooksWhether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got. ~Art BuchwaldKeep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst. ~Joyce Carol OatesNever cut a tree down in the winter time. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. ~ Robert H. SchullerI am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. ~ Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about worst

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

We spend most of our lives conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. ~ Evelyn UnderhillWhat one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. ~ Pablo PicassoSuccess is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us,
becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. ~ Zig ZiglarSuccess is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ~ Jim Rohn

Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom. ~ Thomas Carlyle Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. ~ William ShakespeareDoing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great. ~ George Bernard ShawQuotes about doing

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. ~Edward LearKids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. ~William Edgar StaffordLet your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ~Rabindranath TagoreWe should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. ~ Friedrich NietzscheYou can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~ author unknownQuotes about dancing through life

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Life is a song...sing it.Life is a game...play it.Life is a challenge...meet it.Life is a dream...realize it.Life is a sacrifice...offer it.Life is love...enjoy it. ~ Sai Baba If there is another world, he lives in blissIf there is none, he made the best of this. ~ Robert Burns

Friday, January 17, 2014

The first and best victory is to conquer self. ~PlatoThere are no short cuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly SillsThe only discipline that lasts is self-discipline. ~ Bum PhillipsTalent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ~Rene DescartesDoes the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. ~Christina RossettiQuotes about self discipline

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Our great business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ~ Thomas CarlyleBesides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of
leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination
of non essentials. ~ Lin Yu TangIf you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial. ~ Lou HoltzThe most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes. ~ Harold B. LeeTrue wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. ~ Edward HumphreyQuotes about priorities

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~ George Bernard ShawWe're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. ~ Rudyard KiplingIt's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other. ~ L. M. Montgomery

Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and
Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and
Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great
is to be misunderstood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best six doctors anywhereAnd no one can deny itAre sunshine, water, rest, and airExercise and diet.These six will gladly you attendIf only you are willingYour mind they'll easeYour will they'll mendAnd charge you not a shilling. ~ quoted in "The Health Club" in School Life, Vol. IV (January - June 1920)

Monday, January 13, 2014

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ~Stephen KingA talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life. ~ Goethe

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. ~ Roy L. SmithOne of the greatest talents of all is the talent to recognize and to develop talent in others. ~ Frank Tyger

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. ~ Leo Buscaglia Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with
joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a
benefactor. ~ Ralph Waldo EmersonQuotes about talents

Saturday, January 11, 2014

We owe it to each other to tell stories. ~ Neil GaimanThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~ Maya AngelouIf history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. ~ Anais Nin

Stories can conquer fear; they can make the heart bigger. ~ Ben Okri Quotes about stories

Friday, January 10, 2014

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. ~ Studs TerkelHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. ~ Thomas MoreIn every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it. ~ Marianne WilliamsonThe wound is the place where the light enters you. ~ RumiLife is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ~ Carl SandburgQuotes about wounds, healing, recovery

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom StoppardEach moment is a place you've never been. ~ Mark StrandWhat is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight. ~ Joseph Joubert If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. ~Frances Hodgson BurnettI don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. ~ Muhammad AliThe probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ~ Rebecca WestWe struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. ~ Norman Vincent PealeOne day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ~ Sigmund Freud

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world. ~ Eleanor RooseveltMen kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~ Anne Morrow LindberghThe best way to destroy an enemy is to make a friend. ~ Abraham LincolnA true friend stabs you in the front. ~ Oscar WildeLet us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel ProustBut if the while I think of thee dear friend,All losses are restored and sorrows end. ~ William ShakespeareQuotes about friendship

Thursday, January 2, 2014

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~Mary Dunbar One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. ~Henry David Thoreau As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. ~Mary Anne RadmacherLove is not consolation; it is light. ~Simone WeilLightLightThe invisible reminder of invisible light. ~ T. S. EliotIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~Aristotle OnassisTo love beauty is to see the light. ~Victor Hugo